Attorneys quarreled on Wednesday over whether a 1963 Supreme Court case involving Rhode Island booksellers had any relevance to a White River Junction book publisher’s lawsuit against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The hearing in Washington Western District Court in Seattle was the first in Chelsea Green Publishing’s lawsuit against the senator, alleging she violated the First Amendment by stifling free speech when she wrote a public letter to Amazon condemning the bookseller’s sale of the Chelsea Green book, “The Truth about Covid-19.”
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Welcome everyone. Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health. Today we are going to be having an interview with Ronnie Cummins for our Regenerative Agriculture Week. Ronnie runs, of course, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), and that is one of the nonprofits that we've been supporting regularly by donating a significant portion of our revenues to help support the mission because it's not just enough or sufficient to give you the information.
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It's our annual Regenerative Agriculture Week again, and to give you an update, I interviewed Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). OCA is one of the nonprofits we donate a portion of our revenues to each year.
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”These are the words of Renee Southard, president of SENPA, from the 7th Annual Organic & Natural Health Conference in Ft. Myers Beach, FL. In a world defined by COVID, the dietary supplement industry faces enormous stresses. The complexity of an international supply chain is challenged by labor shortages, transportation issues and a demand, bordering on obsession, for the ingredients and products that consumers want.
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Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, has been an activist since the 1960s, not only centered on anti-GMO campaigns and sustainable and regenerative agriculture, but also for human rights and labor issues.
Read moreRonnie Cummins is a veteran activist, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, a non-profit, US-based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food and farming.
Read moreThe Billion Agave Project is a game-changing, ecosystem-regeneration strategy recently adopted by several innovative Mexican farms in the high-desert region of Guanajuato. With your support, we've been the primary group to donate to Organic Consumers Association supporting this crucial project that is now proven to green arid regions and provide both food and income for some of the world's most challenged farmers.
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Champion Petfoods USA Inc. has resolved two consumer protection lawsuits filed in 2020 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, both claiming the company provided misleading marketing and labeling claims for certain ingredients used in select pet food products.
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According to its own account, Mowi, a Norwegian fish-farming multinational with a presence in 25 countries around the world, supplies one-fifth of the world’s farm-raised Atlantic salmon. As part of its global appeal, Mowi has made sustainability a keystone of the company’s identity: It claims to be leading a “blue revolution,” through which more of the world’s global calorie intake will be harvested from the seas.
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Three organizations that advocate for safe food, a healthy environment and animal welfare have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tyson Foods' advertisements for misleading claims regarding its chicken products.
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